LLB Law

Combining an intellectually challenging curriculum with an industry focus, the LLB Law course at Salford Business School gives you a grounding in the key concepts of law while preparing you for a high-level legal career.

You will study at the University of Salford campus close to Manchester city centre.

Be industry ready

Preparing students for career success is a priority for this Law degree. Modules are designed around the current and future needs of employers and the legal profession; in particular, we have built into your learning an understanding of how changing technology and artificial intelligence are influencing the law. We also place great emphasis on the development of your professional skills; you will have the opportunity to shadow working lawyers and judges, practise your learning during a year’s work placement and develop your client care skills by helping people looking for support from our legal advice schemes. In this way, you learn to put your academic knowledge into practice.

Extracurricular activities, like mooting and trips, are organised by our student-led Law Society, complementing your studies and enhancing your experience throughout. Through initiatives like the SILKS law clinics, you’ll have the chance to offer Family and Housing Law support to people in the region, allowing you to not only practise what you’ve learned but provide help for vulnerable people in the community.

You will:

• Earn a degree accredited by the Bar Standards Board
• Gain an excellent foundation of skills and knowledge for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam, if this is your career ambition
• Develop the professional competency needed for any legal career
• Benefit from opportunities including mini-pupillage and judicial shadowing and gain real, hands-on experience on a work placement
• Help the local community with our legal support schemes

Career focussed, hands-on learning

As the course progresses, you will have the chance to specialise by choosing modules that are relevant to your interests or the direction in which you would like to steer your career. At the end of year 2, you will be able to choose your career pathway, either following the professional route which leads you to the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) or the general route which opens doors to a range of legal careers.

This is for you if...

• You have ambitions for a career in law
• You like debating and developing your arguments
• You want to learn how you can help the vulnerable in our society

Year one

• Legal Writing and Analytical Skills
• Criminal Law
• Legal Systems & Legal Digital Skills
• Contract Law
• Tort Law
• An Introduction to Legal Ethics and Concepts

Year two

• Legal Professional Development
• European Union (EU) Law and the UK
• Public Law
• Land Law

Optional Modules

• Media Law
• Commercial and Consumer Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• Human Rights Law

Optional placement year

Year three (SQE preparation route)

• Equity and Trusts
• Civil and Criminal Litigation
• Law in Action
• Law in Practice
• Company Law

Choose one optional module

• Family Law
• Employment Law

Year three (Broader route)

• Equity and Trusts

Choose up to five optional modules

• Artificial Intelligence and Law
• Medical Law and Ethics
• Employment Law
• Criminal Justice and Punishment
• Family Law
• Legal Research Project
• Caring for Clients in the Working Environment
• Competition Law and the Digital Economy
• Industrial Law
• International Law
• Company Law

Studying Law opens up opportunities in a wide variety of career paths both within and outside the legal profession. Because of their rigorous intellectual training and highly developed skills in research, analysis and communication, law graduates are in high demand by employers.

Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Keoghs, Reeds Solicitors, Simpson Millar and Slater and Gordon are just a few of the organisations our LLB graduates have joined after graduating.